Going the distance: early results of a distributed medical education initiative for Royal College residencies in Canada

Prof Douglas Myhre

qualifications: FCFP

contribution: original concept, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, designed the project

position: Associate dean, Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives

Canada

Dr. Myhre is Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), Calgary, Canada. He has successfully designed and implemented rural based medical education programs, both undergrad and postgraduate: the CSM Rural Family Medicine residency program, the University of Calgary Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, the Distributed Royal College postgraduate initiative and has designed a distributed Physician Assistant curriculum. His research is grounded in social accountability. His passion is fueled by over 30 years of generalist clinical practice. He continues to practice in rural locums.

Stacey Hohman

qualifications: BA(Hons)

contribution: literature review

position: Research assistant